Photo: Kosova Press“Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has rejected criticism from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over his dismissal last week of lower-level officials in Pristina who deported six Turkish citizens with ties to Erdogan’s political foes. Haradinaj, attending a ceremony on April 2 honoring a national hero who resisted […]
“According to Radio Free Europe, Romania and Cyprus have joined Spain in its refusal to attend a May 17 EU-Western Balkans Summit in Sofia because they do not want to sit at the same table with a representative of Kosovo. Like Spain, they believe Kosovo should not be […]
Photo: REUTERS/Stringer“Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has sacked two top security officials for failing to tell him about the arrest and deportation of six Turks. Turkey says the six support Fethullah Gulen, the US-based cleric blamed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a plot to oust him in […]
“Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic has announced that he would visit Ankara in May. At the same time, he said that he expects China’s president Xi Jinping to visit Serbia again. Considering the recent turmoil in northern Kosovo, the president ironically said that Albanians are ‘powerful, great and strong” […]
Photo: Kosova Press“The Information Office of the Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj noted that any initiative which is not based on democratic laws and procedures of Kosovo, will not be implemented nor respected. ‘The Association is an obligation of Kosovo deriving from the dialogue process in Brussels and which will be […]
Photo: N1“A meeting of representatives of Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo and Metohija was held at ‘Mitrovica Palace’. Three conclusions were adopted. 1. If Pristina is not ready to start working on the establishment of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) in the next three weeks, the Serbian municipalities and institutions […]
“US Ambassador to Kosovo Greg Delawie joined the Marriott Hotels signing ceremony this evening to show our support for the first U.S. hotel franchise opening in #Kosovo! This event shows Kosovo’s extraordinary potential as a home for foreign investment. Investments and entrepreneurship are critical to Kosovo’s economic future, but they don’t […]
“Serbia’s president sought advice from Russian President Vladimir Putin on how to respond to a spike in tension with Kosovo. Aleksandar Vucic’s office said in a statement that he informed Putin about the ‘brutal attack’ by Kosovo police on Monday against a senior Serb official who was arrested […]
Photo: Vesna Andjic/RFERL“The decision of the Srpska Lista to leave the provisional institutions in Pristina is good, said the President of Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik, on the RTRS TV show “Lazanski Direktno.” Looking at yesterday’s scenes from the north of Kosovo, Dodik, he says, felt outraged. He believes that […]
Photo: Bojan Slavkovic (AP)“Kosovo Serbs set up a roadblock in northern Kosovo and their representatives walked out of Kosovo’s government Tuesday a day after the arrest and expulsion of a senior Serbian government official that has refueled tensions between the Balkan foes. European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini was making […]